The Venice Biennale: two good shows, but much tired mannerism
The Venice Biennale is the longest-running festival-cum-survey in modern art. The first one was held in 1895, and the 41st opened this month in its three dozen national pavilions, set in the public gardens a few minutes by vaporetto from Piazza San Marco. It is, as always, a hotchpotch with some loose thematic strands. The ostensible subject for 1984 is "Art and the Arts"—painting, sculpture and their connections to other media, to their own history, to architecture, and so on. Almost anything can be...
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